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Series: Genetics and Society
An authoritative Handbook which offers a discussion of the social, political, ethical and economic consequences and implications of the new bio-sciences. The Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach providing a synoptic overview of contemporary international social science research on genetics,...
To Be Published July 24th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the dynamic interactions between...
To Be Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Genetics and Society
Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever-increasing...
To Be Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with...
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Genetics and Society
This book is based on six years of ethnographic research and documentary analysis carried out by the authors on changing contemporary practices in the identification and the classification of natural species. It assumes from the outset that the practices of knowing nature observed cannot be...
To Be Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Genetics and Society
To Be Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Transformations
Since the early 1990s, evolutionary psychology has produced widely popular visions of modern men and women as driven by their prehistoric genes. In Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives, Venla Oikkonen explores the rhetorical appeal of evolutionary psychology by viewing it...
To Be Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
